Common Project - a contest for young artists

Common Project is a yearly contest organised by the Museum of Art in Łódź and the ING Polish Art Foundation. It’s main goal is to support artists under the age of 30.Common Project emphasises not only the end-result (an exhibition, publication, etc.), but most importantly the sole execution of the project in close cooperation with both institutes. The theme of the first year edition is the “Urban prototype” - understood as an idea, project or tool referring to relations occurring within urban space - perhaps even generating unobvious solutions. The work can be designed in any form, from installation, performance activities, research, audio and film. The winner will be able to finalize his project in Łódź, with the full support of the staff, tools and the infrastructure of the Museum of Art in Łódź and the ING Polish Art Foundation.
The contest is open to individuals and groups working as one team. Entries, entitled „Wspólny projekt” should be sent to: wspolny_projekt@msl.org.pl by January 18th, 2013.

The participants of the contest will receive a ftp address where they can send their applications. The results and the winner of the contest will be announced on February 7th

Details and the contest regulations are available at: www.ingart.pl and www.msl.org.pl

The Art Museum in Łódź is one of the oldest museums of contemporary art in the world and the only museum in Poland with such an extensive collection of 20th and 21st century art. The Museum’s mission is to create conditions allowing the contemporary viewer to communicate with art of past and present generations, and to enhance independent perception, understanding and feeling the surrounding reality among viewers.www.msl.org.pl

Freedom Club is the most comprehensive institutional presentation of Radek Szlaga’s works to-date. In the centre of the exhibition, the artist placed a map of the cosmos and the portraits of his parents - and thus creates an image of the world into which he fits his own genealogy. This cosmogonic gesture suggests that the creation of such an exposition is the construction of his own private model of the universe. However even if it is so, then Szlaga’s universe represents reality, whose forces of entropy and the crisis are pushing towards original chaos.

We would like to invite you to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków where Marcin Maciejowski’s work from the collection of the ING Polish Art Foundation will be shown from 19 May. The painting “Young People Want Neither to Study Nor to Work” will be presented at the "Sport in Art" exhibition. This will be the second presentation, following the one of “History in Art”, within the series on how artists perceive matters of everyday life.

The Foundation’s new identification has been nominated to the Ad Creators Club awards (Klub Twórców Reklamy). The project created by Jacek Walesiak, co-creator of UV Studio, is among the group of visual identification selected for the Design category.